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Samuel anointing David

Samuel’s Prayer

Samuel’s Prayer We have collected some of the best Samuel’s prayer to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of...

Alleged site of Samson's tomb in the Zorah (Tzora) forest

Samson’s Prayer

Samson’s Prayer We have collected some of the best Samson’s prayer to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. Samson was the last of the judges of the...

Nehemiah Amid the Ruins of Jerusalem

Nehemiah’s Prayer

Nehemiah’s Prayer Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. He was governor of Persian Judea under Artaxerxes I of Persia (465–424 BC). It is in Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה‎, Nəḥemyāh, “Yah comforts”. We have collected Nehemiah’s prayers to use in request to God. May these prayers...

King Jehoshaphat Trusts God

Jehoshaphat’s Prayer

Jehoshaphat’s Prayer Jehoshaphat (Jehosaphat, Josaphat, or Yehoshafat; יְהוֹשָׁפָט‎, Yəhōšafat, Tiberian: Yehōšāp̄āṭ, “Jehovah has judged”; Josaphat), according to 1 Kings 15:24, was the son of Asa, and the fourth king of the Kingdom of Judah, in succession to his father. His children included Jehoram, who succeeded him as king. His mother...

Hezekiah

Hezekiah’s Prayer

Hezekiah’s Prayer We have collected Hezekiah’s prayers to use in request to God. May these prayers for safety bring you comfort and peace of mind. May these prayers for strength encourage your spirit and strengthen your faith. Hezekiah (חִזְקִיָּהוּ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the son of Ahaz and the 13th...

Esther Denouncing Haman by Ernest Normand

Esther’s Prayer

Esther’s Prayer Esther is described in all versions of the Book of Esther as the Jewish queen of a Persian king Ahasuerus. In the narrative, Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, refuses to obey him, and Esther is chosen for her beauty. The king’s chief adviser, Haman, is offended by Esther’s cousin and guardian, Mordecai, and gets permission...

"Elisha's Spring" (Ain es-Sultan) in Jericho (2012). The fountain is supposed to be the waters which Elisha healed, referred to in 2 Kings 2:19–22.

Elisha’s Prayer

Elisha’s Prayer Elisha (אֱלִישָׁע, ʼElišaʻ, ʼĔlîšāʻ, “My God is salvation“, Ἐλισ[σ]αῖος,Elis[s]aîos or Ἐλισαιέ,Elisaié) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a prophet and a wonder-worker. Also mentioned in the New Testament and the Quran, Elisha is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Amongst new religious movements, Bahá’í writings...

Painting Daniel In The Lions' Den Peter Paul Rubens

Daniel’s Prayer

Daniel’s Prayer Daniel (דָּנִיֵּאל‎ – Dāniyyēl, meaning “God is my Judge“; Δανιήλ, Daniḗl) is the hero of the biblical Book of Daniel. A noble Jewish youth of Jerusalem, he is taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and serves the king and his successors with loyalty and ability until the time of the Persian conqueror Cyrus, all the while...

Eastern Orthodox Nativity depiction little changed in more than a millennium

Virgin Birth Of Jesus

Virgin Birth Of Jesus The virgin birth of Jesus is the doctrine that Jesus was conceived and born by his mother Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit and without the agency of a human father. The idea is found only in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. It is enshrined in the Nicene Creed (“incarnate of the Virgin Mary”)...

Solomon at his throne, painting by Andreas Brugger, 1777

Solomon

Prophet Solomon Solomon (שְׁלֹמֹה, Shlomoh), or Jedidiah (יְדִידְיָהּ Yedidyah), was, according to the Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, Quran, and Hadiths, a fabulously wealthy and wise king of Israel who succeeded his father, King David. The conventional dates of Solomon’s reign are circa 970 to 931 BCE, normally given in alignment with the dates of David’s reign. He is described...

Noah's ark

Noah

Prophet Noah In Abrahamic religions, Noah was the tenth and last of the pre-Flood Patriarchs. The story of Noah’s Ark is told in the Bible’s Genesis flood narrative. The biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham In addition to the Book of Genesis, Noah is mentioned in...

war between good and evil in the DEAD sea

Prophet Jonah

Prophet Jonah Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central figure of the Book of Jonah, in which he is called upon by God to travel to Nineveh and...

An elderly Isaac blessing Jacob, oil on canvas by Govert Flinck, 1638

Jacob

Prophet Jacob Jacob (יַעֲקֹב, Ya‘aqōv, Yā‘āqōḇ), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites. According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob was the third Hebrew progenitor with whom God made a covenant. He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and...

Albrecht Dürer, Lot and His Daughters, his wife left as a pillar of salt on the road behind

Prophet Lot

Prophet Lot Prophet Lot (לוֹט, Lōt, Lōṭ, Lut (لوط‎) “veil” or “covering”) was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life include his journey with his uncle Abram (Abraham) and his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot’s wife...

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Moses

Who Is Moses? Moses is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. According to both the Bible and the Quran, Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom...

A mosaic from the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople (modern Istanbul), depicting Mary with Jesus, flanked by John II Komnenos (left) and his wife Irene of Hungary (right), c. 1118 AD

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran describe Mary as a virgin; according to Christian theology she conceived Jesus through the Holy Spirit while still a virgin....

Jews praying in Jerusalem (HaKotel HaMaaravi), 2010.

Jewish Prayer

Jewish Prayer Jewish prayer (תְּפִלָּה‬, tefillah; תְּפִלּוֹת‬, tefillot; תּפֿלה tfile, תּפֿלות tfilles; davening from Yiddish דאַוון daven ‘pray’) are the prayer recitations and Jewish meditation traditions that form part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book. However, the term tefillah as referenced in...

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Prayer In The Hebrew Bible

Prayer In The Hebrew Bible Prayer in the Hebrew Bible is an evolving means of interacting with God, most frequently through a spontaneous, individual, unorganized form of petitioning and/or thanking. Standardized prayer such as is done today is non-existent, though beginning in Deuteronomy, the Bible lays the groundwork for organized prayer, including basic liturgical...

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Passages From The Psalms And The Proverbs

Passages From The Psalms And The Proverbs Here are some passages from the Psalms and the Proverbs for blessings. A blessing is a prayer asking for God’s protection, or a little gift from the heavens. It’s also any act of approving, like when your roommate wants to move out and...

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Confession In Judaism

Confession In Judaism Confession in Judaism (וִדּוּי‎, widduy, viddui) is a step in the process of atonement during which a Jew admits to committing a sin before God. In sins between a Jew and God, the confession must be done without others present (The Talmud calls confession in front of another a show of disrespect). On the other hand, confession...